all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
works for a financial newspaper, it s laughing. there is no basis in that. they are paying close attention in russia to this bill because they know $40 billion in, you know, ukrainian currency, is a lot of weapons, a lot of support, a lot of sustenance for a country gaining confidence. it is preparing a counter in the east to try to disperse some of russia s gains there. so $40 billion, we re beginning to talk real money here. this is an extraordinary act by the yiet. united states. it is. a retired russian colonel is giving a damning assessment of russia s performance in ukraine, appearing on state television in russia yesterday. as part of a panel, he said the invasion isn t going the way the kremlin is poor craig it. he said the global isolation is
in mariupol, but the bombing of the defenders of the city continues. this is a war crime committed by the russian military literally in front of the whole world. russia s shelling of mariupol did not stop even when the u.n. secretary-general was holding negotiations in moscow. meantime, russia s renewed assault on eastern ukraine may not be going as well as moscow had hoped. a senior u.s. defense official says russia s military progress in the donbas region is slow as well as uneven as oren liebermann now reports, that s not the only sign that russia s invasion isn t going according to plan. reporter: near the city of kyiv, a russian tank flaw laid bare. the turrets separated from the body of the tank. a problem seen in other destroyed tanks as well. it s a design flaw in russian tanks that ukrainian forces have exploited. if the turret is penetrated and all our weapons penetrate
well, this is one more fact of this invasion, some of the most vulnerable being made more vulnerable. as if the invasion isn t horrific enough, hundreds of children with cancer have had to be evacuated from the country while already fighting for their lives. we re going to talk to someone playing a key role in trying to save those young lives. that s coming g up. our style, ws of design options. when a normal day is anything but normal, we fit your schedule, with our uniquque tub over tub process, installed in as little as a day. when high quality is the only quality that matters, we fit your standards, with a lifetime guarantee. bath fitter. it just fits. visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation.
voters may see biden as more consumed by international affairs than domestic ones. that s a charge that the french voters have leveled. and with many americans focused on the economy, two senior administration officials tell me a concerted effort is being launched to reemphasize to americans that the president understands their pain and is trying to help. in the coming weeks, biden will travel more inside the country and further stress that russia s invasion isn t some far-off crisis but one with deep economic ramifications in the united states. that traveling begins today in new hampshire, he s got a pacific northwest swing later in the week. we ll talk about all of that with white house deputy press secretary chris meagher today on way too early. still ahead, more on that ruling that put an end to the mask mandate for public transportation. plus the pentagon gives an update on the u.s. military training ukrainian forces and indeed president biden is getting ready to hit the roa